Newtown Rotary Provides Dictionaries To Students

By ELIZA HALLABECK

Published: Feb 20, 2009 12:00 AM

The Newtown Rotary Club recently presented dictionaries to every fourth grade student in Newtown.

A total of 513 Student Dictionaries were presented to the fourth graders at Sandy Hook School, Hawley School, Middle Gate School, Head Oâ Meadow School, St Rose School, Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, and Fraser-Woods School.

This is the fourth successive year that the Rotary Club has undertaken this project under the leadership of Rotary Club members Brian Amey and Tony Salvatore. The members of the Reed School Interact Club also gave support in preparing the books for distribution.

âEncouraging Newtownâ students to excel has been an ongoing focus of the Rotary Club,â stated Rotary Club President Alan Clavette. He added, âWe not only want to recognize the students for their achievements with the Student of the Month program, but to also give them tools, such as these dictionaries, to help them maximize their achievements.â

The Rotary Club of Newtown meets every Monday evening at 6 pm at The Inn at Newtown. Anyone interested in learning more about the club should contact Mr Clavette at 426-2080 or visit the clubâs website at www.newtownctrotary.org.

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I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

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